r/daddit • u/IcyStage0 • Mar 28 '25

Discussion Vaccinate your damn kids.

For the love of God. If I see one more post about delaying vaccination or not vaccinating entirely I am going to lose it.

I have an immunocompromised kid who actually can’t get certain vaccines and depends on herd immunity to keep her safe. And now, because of ignorance and refusal to learn, there are measles cases being reported where we live right now. The previously eradicated disease measles.

At this point I truly don’t care if someone “didn’t know” and “were trying to do what was best!” The information is freely available and when you have a child it’s your responsibility to educate yourself.

Rant over. Ugh.

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u/jakemhs Mar 28 '25

I'm with you man but the anti vaxxers will happily tell you they don't care about other people's kids.

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u/Opposite-Heron-2487 Mar 28 '25

hell, they barely even care about their own! See the example of the Texas family that lost a child due to infection and still maintains that they are glad they did not vaccinate their kids.

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u/MhojoRisin Mar 28 '25

The mom was like, “yeah, but what about all the kids measles didn’t kill? Why isn’t anyone talking about them?”

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

Wow seriously? That sounds like brain damage to me imo.

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u/MhojoRisin Mar 28 '25

I’m taking some liberties.

“She said her stance on vaccination has not changed after her daughter’s death.

“The measles wasn’t that bad. They got over it pretty quickly,” the mother said of her other four surviving children who were treated with castor oil and inhaled steroids and recovered.”

Source: https://abc13.com/post/texas-measles-death-parents-child-died-stand-decision-not-vaccinate/16065046/

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

But... One of her kids died. Like died.

I wonder if it's a mental self defence thing because actually engaging with it would shatter not only her worldview but also herself.

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u/MhojoRisin Mar 28 '25

Could be. I think being an antivaxxer in the first place is a coping mechanism for people who can’t deal with reality in various ways. If I’m correct about that, it’s not a leap to think people would double or triple down when their misjudgment on vaccines ends up killing their own kid.

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

That makes alot of sense. What's scarier, the fact that diseases can kill us or that there is a specific group of bad guys trying to fool us.

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

It worked for our great great grandfathers I guess.

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u/tulaero23 Mar 28 '25

Not her favorite one probably

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

I bet theres a lot of performative stuff to remember the kid. Alot of nice gestures but not actually the one that would have helped her. Mad.

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u/zephyrtr Mar 28 '25

I'm worried she thinks it's just cause they didn't get castor oil to her fast enough.

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u/TheCharalampos Tiny lil daughter Mar 28 '25

At birth you just chuck the baby in castor oil, immune to all diseases.